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“ NOVICE’S ” GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 
(hem ; but' we wish it (o make its way en- 
tirely by its own merits. We expect to 
be able to furnish back numbers to all 
who may need them, at all times. Shall 
be pleased to exchange with all other bee 
journals, and will cheerfully pay thediffer- 
encc in price. 
We see by the Bee Keepers Directory 
just out (first number) that its editor, >!. 
C. Mitchell, proposes to “sail along the 
shore in shallow water.” lie also adver- 
tises "dollar bee hives;" but he don’t sell 
them for a dollar — he only sells us a right 
for ten dollars, and then we can make 
them with frames and all painted for a 
dollar or less. His mode of “making 
comb” is now sold away down to five dol- 
lars, and we are going to send him the five 
dollars to get it for “Gleanings,” i, e., when 
we get tho “ambrosial honey,” if it is 
good. Mr. M. also “teaches school” a 
good deal cheaper. His hits in the Di- 
• rectory on ventilation are certainly not 
very far wrong, and if he didn’t always 
keep wanting to sell receipts and “rights” 
for ten dollars or more, we should really 
like some parts of his quarterly. Cincin- 1 
nali : 2oc. per year. 
Wc are happy to add that we have found 
the screw mentioned in our last, for the 
queen-rearing cards are entirely unneccs- j 
sary. Common brass pins driven through 
the card into the hive half their length j 
and then bent at right angles answer every 
purpose, as the head of the pin plainly 
designates the date or condition of things. 
The pins cost almost nothing, and do not 
rust by exposure ; and so the expense of ! 
the device is only one cent per hive; the 
convenience of it can only be appreciated 
by use. 
ritonLEMs. 
M O. 17,— Granted that fifty colonies 
are as many as are profitable in one 
locality generally, and that more honey 
could be secured by giving them a locality j 
iu autumn different from their summer i: 
cue. Could not a wagon or car be con- ji 
slructed, perhaps something on the plan ' 
of a photographer’s car, that would give 
the whole fifty the requisite room and 
space between each hive, and have a per- 
manent place thereon, a light room to be 
arranged for extracting in the center, and 
the hives arranged around the outside ? 
I he winter repository to be arranged so 
that the whole can be run in and housed 
in a minute or more, uud as quickly 
brought out to have a fly during a warm 
day in winter. A simple mechanism 
could be arranged to close all entrances I 
with wire cloth at once, and also to open 
them as quickly. 
When pasturage’ is scarce, single hives 
hung on spring balances could be located 
at desirable points for ten or fifteen miles 
around, and when one of these showed 
that honey was coming rapidly, our trav- 
eling apiary could, in a few hours, take 
advantage of the yield. Many other ad- 
vantages present themselves, such as 
quickly housing our bees during severe 
frosts in March or even April, likewise 
some disadvantages. As several have 
this season reaped rich rewards for mov- 
ing bees where they could have fall pas- 
turage, wc think the matter an import- 
ant one. Nunn Bros, report 1500 lbs. in 
about one week by moving their bees only 
a few counties west. Further reports 
next month. 
HONEY COLUMN. 
^rSKt^E have sold all our honey but 
™ one barrel for 18c., and the de- 
mand seems to exceed the supply for fine 
clover honey. There seem to be many 
buyers at good prices, and many of our 
friends have sold their crop already at 
2ue. 
Give us the items, if you have any to 
sell and don’t get fair prices at home. 
We lake great pleasure in inserting the 
following extract from a letter just rec’d. 
The more so as Mr. Clias. F. Muth’s name 
is quoted very fair and our readers can 
rest assured that lie is both reliable and 
responsible : “I will pay for all the choice 
white clover honey I can get. lli cents per 
lb. at Cincinnati depot. 1 can use a 
few bbls. of dark or Linden honey, and I 
may get a good demand for the latter be- 
fore long, but do’nt think I could pay 
more than 13 cents for it. 
Cius. F. Moth, 
1»7G and 1)78 Central Avenue, Cin., O.” 
Doleful again. A series of severe frosts, 
cut short at one “fell sweep” both the 
“swamp posies” and Novice’s hopes, and 
to prevent demoralization our bees have 
been returned to their homes In regard 
to the cider mill, Novice, when baffled at 
Problem 17, turned desperately to the so- 
lution of Problem 15, and he and the bees, 
are now rejoicing at what seems to bid 
fail' to be a great success, viz: Employ- 
ing robbers and all hands at work on dry 
sugar in the open air, exposed to the sun 
but protected from rain. Further partic- 
ulars next month. 
ADVEHTI SIO M KNT8. 
Advertisements will be received at 10 cents 
per line each insertion, cash in advance: 
and we require that every Advertiser satisfies 
us of his responsibility and intention to do 
all that ho agrees, and that his goods are 
really worth the prico asked for them. 
rilHE I* It Ml. FOB ITALIAN UUEE.VS 
J after tho 1st of August, will be for 
Tested Queens, JU.Otl 
Warranted Queens, 2.00 
.1. SI1AW & SUN, Chatham Center, 
I. B. DANIELS, Lodi. 
Medina Co., Os 
